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Without Vanity of Depth

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Slow sharp color ... fast coarse brightness ... back side of a body against suspended ground locating an edge ... IS ... a patch that differs in hue but is matched in luminance ... Color witnessing a boundary ... the edges are present and unlocatable ... The boundary shimmers ... swims ... refuses to hold still ... Vibration people feel more in front of flat surfaces ... Materials that become light that won't sit down ... The crawling surface fails to find an edge that color insists is there ... Found it by the conscious and subconscious middle eye ... Mammal eyes consistently diverge ... one aimed true ... one drifting outward ... stereo blind ... wall eyed ... Let's again flatten our three-dimensional world onto a plane ... in our mind and as physical proof ... This kind of world has no actual depth sense to fight against while transcribing onto a hard or soft surface ... Flat over deep cannot lose ... because Earth's contrasting veneer never lies ... Therefore ... with vein ... we at Paraploo often love to perceive the way our uppermost layer discerns ...

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